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Another hemp vodka in the US

20.01.2017

According to analysts of American hemp market, sales of food products using hemp constituting more than half the total volume of hemp market in the country. In absolute terms, the legal market malonarkoticheskoy hemp in the United States totaled more than $ 5.4 billion in 2015.

Humboldt County, California is known for its extensive crops of hemp, which grows on the mountain slopes. Not surprisingly, in the county a new "goryachitelny" drink - vodka on cannabis, called Humboldt 's Finest. By itself raises the question - if it does not except the intoxicating properties of any more effects that affect the human psyche, drinking this wonderful drink?

As Abe Stevens says the owner of the distillery, it is already two years sells organic vodka. Their products have gained popularity and many clients are asking to enrich the drink a special flavor, add "local flavor". Realizing report to the illegality of such decisions, Mr. Stevens yet found a compromise - it is used in the production of industrial hemp with a low content of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). And as a result - tetrahydrocannabinol content in vodka does not exceed 0.3%. As a result, the drink may not have psychotropic effect. The only thing that got this drink of hemp - a floral-spicy aroma and unique flavor. In combination with gin, vodka, hemp became the basis invigorating cocktails in the whole region.

Today vodka Humboldt 's Finest is available only in California and Colorado.

Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"

In the USfood market with ingredients cannabis is on the rise the past decade. According to analysts of American hemp market, sales of food products using hemp constituting more than half the total volume of hemp market in the country. In absolute terms, the legal market malonarkoticheskoy hemp in the United States totaled more than $ 5.4 billion in 2015.